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Imaging mounted disk volumes under duress (2021)


Backups are critical. If you are lucky and organised you have a set of useful backup primitives, such as Point in Time snapshots on your Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS), your disk array controller, or volume manager.

If you are lucky and organised you have a set of useful backup primitives, such as Point in Time snapshots on your Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS), your disk array controller, or volume manager. I ended up writing a simple proof of concept and now needed a way to test the integrity of the whole thing to make sure this can copy data without missing altered sectors (and thus causing corruption) Annoyingly all of my computer storage was cursed for this use by being too fast, however my day was saved by an incredibly sluggish hot pink 4GiB USB flash disk!

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